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Samuel Freedman, who runs a scrap business in Newark, could hardly be expected to know what Georgia farmers are thinking. But Samuel Freedman did know that he was short of workers: he wanted to increase his hired hands from 50 to 70. When Floyd Weaver, one of his Negro foremen, suggested a recruiting trip to Georgia, Samuel Freedman...
Floyd Weaver kept strictly to his mission. Traveling through peanut-rich Crisp County (150 miles south of Atlanta), he offered remaining farm hands $30 to $40 a week; hinted about girls around Newark whose boy friends had gone into the Army. After a week he had rounded up ten Negroes. He sent for Harold G. Weston, the company's personnel manager...
...become the talk of the smart jazz set. A staff pianist for six years in Columbia Broadcasting's Manhattan studios, Scott formed a six-man "Quintet" in December 1936, began composing and broadcasting sharp, rhythmic, unsingable pieces with wacky titles (War Dance for Wooden Indians, Bumpy Weather Over Newark, Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals...
Message. In Newark, N.J.,a young man stopped a dance band, started to make a speech, refused to be hushed, enraged 3,000 impatient dancers who were joined by 1,000 onlookers in a free-for-all that took police an hour and a half to break up. Nobody remembered what the speaker said...
...residents of West Milford, N.J. (plus some 10,000 summer visitors) will be without a doctor soon. Last week the town's only practicing physician, Dr. Harold C. Geiger, father of three, was called up by the Army Medical Corps. Dr. Norman Scott, secretary of the Newark office of the Army Procurement and Assignment Service, agreed with the worried townsfolk that the Army faced a "moral obligation" to replace the departing doctor or to arrange calls from doctors in other towns. But he warned: "West Milford is an example of what is going to happen in a great many...